Because i believe in social liberalism and the middle class. He might not be perfect, and not everything he has done has worked well... how the alternative - > scares the living garbage out of me.

Now i do not live in the states, so it wouldnt have much impact on me, but i see the same tendencies in many countries, including my own, where the right wing movement gains traction with their "each on their own" mentality.

Mikael, you don't seem like a dumb guy, so I invite you to take a hard look at how the Amercian middle class has actually fared under this administation. Don't look at what Mr. Obama says he wants to do; look, rather, at what he does. Good, middle-class jobs in the energy sector (particularly coal, and coal-related industries), over-the-road trucking, oil drilling and exploration, and lord knows how many other small business jobs have been strangled by this adminstration and its endless over-regulation. What we're moving toward, I fear, is, in fact, a more prosperous "middle class," but with virtualy no one in it. Yes, there will be government bureaucrats, public sector union employees, a few employees in sectors deemed "worthy" by the government who will do fine, perhaps even better than they are - but the price is an enormous chunk of the population driven out of the middle class, and into the arms to the state.

I, too, struggle with gaps in income. There is certainly something that feels wrong about a guy building himself a third home in the Hamptons when a mother can't feed her kids in Tulsa. But, I have come to recognize that society as a whole tends to do better when we let douche bags build third home in the Hamptons than if we try to find a way to even everything out.

Well since the polls are now moving toward Obama, the right wingers should chime in any minute now saying how polls dont mean anything. Polls only mean something when they move toward romney, did you forgot that Mikael?

Trickle down economics doesn't work. It never worked. Biggest scam ever perpetrated against the American middle class. Fat cats get richer while the middle class treads water trying impossibly to save their existence.

Back to the subject matter, Romney will not win in November. He fucked himself by not picking Portman for his running mate. Any chance of carrying the State of Ohio is now lost. Since this is a game of Electoral Votes, Romney is checkmated. You CANNOT show me a scenario where Romney can reasonably accumulate the necessary 270 Electoral Votes needed to defeat the incumbent POTUS.

How can you vote for a guy that completely fucked the middle class with this obamacare crap. All the poor people with get the vouchers and the middle class will have their healthcare rates go up because of all the sick people being mixed into the same class. So the guy making 50,000 trying to support his family is getting screwed.

10/8/12 4:10 PM EDT

After showing President Barack Obama with an 8-point lead in September, the Pew Research Center now finds a deadlocked presidential race among registered voters — and a 4-point Romney lead among those most likely to vote:

Coming out of the debate, Mitt Romney’s personal image has improved. His favorable rating has hit 50% among registered voters for the first time in Pew Research Center surveys and has risen five points since September. At the same time, Obama’s personal favorability rating has fallen from 55% to 49%.

In the presidential horserace, Romney has made sizable gains over the past month among women voters, white non-Hispanics and those younger than 50. Currently, women are evenly divided (47% Obama, 47% Romney). Last month, Obama led Romney by 18 points (56% to 38%) among women likely voters. …

Romney now ties Obama in being regarded as a strong leader and runs virtually even with the president in willingness to work with leaders of the other party. And by a 47% to 40% margin, voters pick Romney as the candidate who has new ideas.

Conversely, Obama continues hold leads as the candidate who connects well with ordinary people and takes consistent positions on issues. And Obama leads by 10 points (49% to 39%) as the candidate who takes more moderate positions on issues.

How can you vote for a guy that completely fucked the middle class with this obamacare crap. All the poor people with get the vouchers and the middle class will have their healthcare rates go up because of all the sick people being mixed into the same class. So the guy making 50,000 trying to support his family is getting screwed.

That is something you read on a blog and isnt true.

Obamacare as a concept is basically requiring insurance to insure..what we have now is far from that concept.

Now if you are employed you have in most cases reasonable insurance because the risk pool is larger and the larger the risk pool the more even the rates and coverage..then you have self-insurance which is garbage for the most part because the risk pool is gone and cannot be spread across a large number of people.

Self-insurance costs are dramatically higher, OR the coverage is so badly watered down that it really isnt insurance..so you can either choose between moderate coverage and massive premiums or rolling the dice with lower coverage.

I think if companies are going to offer coverage then it should cover the insured and actually mean something.

Why people are mad about having insurance actually cover and do what it is meant to, but at a cost is quizzical at best.

When insurance does not cover, who ends up bearing the cost in the end? The consumer..hospitals build in these costs of non-payment and pass it along to the insurance companies and individuals, as do physicians etc..

The "cost" of not having reasonable insurance coverage is absorbed by society and passed along through higher overall premiums to all.

Obamacare as a concept is basically requiring insurance to insure..what we have now is far from that concept.

Now if you are employed you have in most cases reasonable insurance because the risk pool is larger and the larger the risk pool the more even the rates and coverage..then you have self-insurance which is garbage for the most part because the risk pool is gone and cannot be spread across a large number of people.

Self-insurance costs are dramatically higher, OR the coverage is so badly watered down that it really isnt insurance..so you can either choose between moderate coverage and massive premiums or rolling the dice with lower coverage.

I think if companies are going to offer coverage then it should cover the insured and actually mean something.

Why people are mad about having insurance actually cover and do what it is meant to, but at a cost is quizzical at best.

When insurance does not cover, who ends up bearing the cost in the end? The consumer..hospitals build in these costs of non-payment and pass it along to the insurance companies and individuals, as do physicians etc..

The "cost" of not having reasonable insurance coverage is absorbed by society and passed along through higher overall premiums to all.

Sorry wallstreet but you don't know what you're talking about. I am an insurance broker. In a lot of cases the individual market is cheaper than a group plan is. Also the coverage is just as good as a group plan. If you have an individual plan it is spread across a lot more people than a large group. I see with my own eyes as to what is happening with the market and, prices for middle income families is going to sky rocket with this bullshit that you call obamacare

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